The Effects of Adopting Improved Wood Stoves on the Welfare of Rural Women: a Case of Kibaha District in Tanzania
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VAN HALL LARENSTEIN UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES. The Effects of Adopting Improved Wood Stoves on the Welfare of Rural Women: A case of Kibaha District in Tanzania A research Project Submitted to the Van Hall Larenstein University of Applied Sciences in Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements for the Masters Degree in Management of Development with Specialization in Rural Development and Gender By Neatness Stanley Bwenge September, 2011 Van Hall Larenstein University of Applied Sciences Netherlands © Copyright Neatness Bwenge, 2011. All rights reserved Permission to Use In handing over this research study in partial fulfilment of the requirement for a Master degree, I agree that the library of this university may make it freely available for inspection. I further agree that permission for copying of this research project in any manner, in whole or in part, for scholarship purposes may be granted by Larenstein Director of Research. It is understood that any copying or publication or use of this research project or parts thereof for financial gain shall not be allowed without my written permission. It is also understood that due recognition shall be given to me and to the University in any scholarly use which may be made of any material in my research project. Requests for permission is copy or to make other use of material in this research project is whole or part should be addressed to: Van Hall Larenstein University of Applied Sciencies 6708 PB, Wageningen Postbus 441 Tel: 0031 317 486 262 Fax: 0031 371 486 280 Email: info@van hall-larenstein.com i Acknowledgement I would like to express my gratitude to the institutions and people who made my field and thesis work a great success. I extend my profound appreciation to Larenstein University administration and academic staff for the invaluable knowledge imparted on me. My thanks also extend to the Dutch government for awarding me a fellowship under (NUFFIC) without whose financial assistance and support it would have been impossible to study in the Netherlands and conduct my research in Tanzania. My heart-felt vote of thanks goes to my supervisor, Marcel Put because of your inspiration and valuable comments, suggestions and guidance you made this thesis possible today. I am sincerely grateful to my course coordinator Annemarie Westendorp. Throughout the course she was much of effort in teaching, guiding and advising me through the concepts gender and development. As a shoulder to lay on she has being that shoulder and as a mother to me, may God bless the work of your hands. I would also like to thank TaTEDO as an organization I worked for, specifically the Executive Director and all staff for all the support I received from them since the day I expressed my ambition to study in the Netherlands Specifically, I want to say thank-you my dear husband Alex Magere, who endured a long year of baby-sitting for our beloved Noela. To give me time for my graduate work. His encouragement, moral support and patience throughout my studying were the preconditions for all my efforts and achievements. I thank my mother, father, sisters and brothers for their prayers before and during my studies in the Netherlands. I am grateful to all RDG participants and the other MOD and APCM students for their support, encouragement during the study and cheerful moments we spent together. May God reward you all. Most importantly, I thank God for letting me through the all period of my Master Programme in Van Hall Larenstein University. It is difficult to mention each and everyone who supported me in this quest, in one way or another, but these few words are a token of my sincere gratitude to all of you. ii Table of Contents Permission to Use ...................................................................................................................... i Acknowledgement .................................................................................................................... ii List of figures ........................................................................................................................... vi Acronyms ................................................................................................................................ vii Abstract .................................................................................................................................. viii 1.0 CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION ................................................................................. 1 1.1 Background ................................................................................................................................. 1 1.2 The Situation of the Energy Sector in Tanzania .................................................................... 1 1.3 Initiatives for Promoting Improved Cook Stoves in Tanzania .............................................. 2 1.4 Tanzania Traditional Energy Development Organization .................................................... 2 1.5 Problem Statement .................................................................................................................... 4 1.6 Research Objective .................................................................................................................... 4 1.7 Research Question .................................................................................................................... 4 1.7.1 Sub Research Questions .............................................................................................................. 4 CHAPTER TWO ........................................................................................................................ 5 2.0 Literature Review ....................................................................................................................... 5 2.1 Overview of Key Concepts ............................................................................................................. 5 2.1.1 Rural Women Welfare ................................................................................................................. 5 2.1.2 Gender Equality ........................................................................................................................... 6 2.2 Effects of Improved Cook Stoves to Rural Women .................................................................... 6 CHAPTER THREE .................................................................................................................... 9 3.0 Methodological Considerations ..................................................................................................... 9 3.2 Research Design ............................................................................................................................. 9 3.3 Sampling Selection ........................................................................................................................ 10 3.3.1 Village Selection ......................................................................................................................... 10 3.3.2 Selection of Stove Users ............................................................................................................ 10 3.3.3 Selection of the Key Informants ................................................................................................ 10 3.4 Data Collection Techniques ......................................................................................................... 11 iii 3.4.1 Focus Group Discussion ............................................................................................................. 11 3.4.2 Field Observation: ...................................................................................................................... 11 3.5.1 Epistemology in Data Collection ................................................................................................ 11 3.6 Data Analysis Process .................................................................................................................. 12 3.7 Strengths and Limitation of Methodology .................................................................................. 12 3.8 Ethical Issues ................................................................................................................................. 12 3.8.1 Informed Consent ...................................................................................................................... 12 3.8.2 Interview Ethics .......................................................................................................................... 12 CHAPTER FOUR .....................................................................................................................14 District and the project ......................................................................................................................... 14 4.1 Project Coverage ........................................................................................................................... 14 4.2 Study Area Profile .......................................................................................................................... 14 4.3 Types of Improved Cook Stoves Promoted ............................................................................... 15 4.3 Project Objectives .......................................................................................................................... 15 4.4 Expected Results ..........................................................................................................................